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  2. INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

    As the conference at Edinburgh between the representatives of the Ship Building Employers' Federation, and the Boiler Makers' Society in regard to the ...

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  3. RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    Several Atlantic liners took part in a race from New York to Plymouth. The North German Lloyd Co.'s steamer George Washington, 27,000 tons, was first. ...

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  4. A BALLARAT OUTRAGE.

    A sensational occurrence took place on Saturday night at the drapery establishment of Mr. Greer, in Bridge-street, Ballarat East. It consisted of the ...

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  5. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    Our London correspondent' cables that Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, left London on Friday night on a visit to his Majesty King George, who is ...

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  6. "DEPRESS MOTOR CARS."

    A petition signed by 10,200 cottage women of Great Britain has been presented to her Majesty Queen Mary, beseeching her to repress the use of motor cars, as ...

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  7. AN ALPINE FLIGHT.

    M. Chavez, the Peruvian aviator, made a second attempt to fly from Brique, in Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, to Milan, in Italy, in the hope of winning a ...

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  8. FOOTBALL SCANDAL.

    A full meeting of the council of the Victorian Football. League was held on Saturday night to investigate the circumstances which have given rise to the suspicion that ...

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  9. NEW SOUTH WALES CAMPAIGN.

    The political campaign is becoming strenuous in almost every electorate. Both parties are in full swing, and candidates are addressing as many as three meetings ...

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  10. ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY.

    Several German newspapers state that damaging, evidence has been obtained, against Trench, who was arrested at Emden on a charge of being an English ...

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  11. TURKISH LOAN.

    In connection with Turkey's negotiations with France for a loan of £6,000,000, Sir Ernest Cassel, the English financier, advises the Porte to accept the conditions ...

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  12. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

    Mr. Marconi, while on hoard an Italian Lloyd steamer, flew a kite, and by this means able to establish wireless telegraphic communication with a station in ...

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  13. LORD MAYOR ON CRITICAL POSITION OF FOOTBALL.

    Speaking at the opening of the Princes Park bowling green on Saturday afternoon, the Lord Mayor (Cr. Burston) remarked that football was not a game for ...

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  14. SOCIALIST CONGRESS.

    At the Socialist Congress at Magdeburg, in Saxony, a resolution was carried in favor of giving the suffrage to all men and women above the age of 20 years. The ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. SPANISH BULL FIGHT.

    During a bull fight at Darajas, near Madrid, a stand erected for the spectators collapsed. One person was killed, and many others were injured. ...

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  16. BRITISH POLITICS.

    Mr. Alex. Ure, Lord Advocate, speaking at Dollis Hill, said he was in favor of lifting all taxation from men's labor and industry and ultimately laying all rating ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. MOUNT M'KINLEY.

    Professor Hershel Parker, of Columbia University, who recently went to Alaska with the object of attempting to ascend Mount M'Kinley, has returned. ...

    Article : 125 words
  18. WILLS AND ESTATES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 words
  19. SOLDIERS' UNIFORMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  20. A FORGOTTEN GUN CHARGE.

    While a firm of metal merchants were dismounting an old cannon at Alexandria (Egypt) a charge exploded. The charge had been in the gun since the days af Arabi ...

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  21. SHIPPING AGREEMENT.

    A correspondent of the "Shipping Gazette" states that, owing to a disagreement between the German-Australia Steamship Co. and the Swedish-South ...

    Article : 247 words
  22. NAVAL EXPERT'S VISIT.

    "Any views I may have gained during my connection with the navy are the property of the Federal Government," said Admiral Henderson yesterday. "I want it ...

    Article : 310 words
  23. A TRAIN WRECKED.

    A train from Rock Island (Illinois) was wrecked near Omaha owing to part of the line having been destroyed by a cloud-burst. ...

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  24. ANTI-VIVISECTION.

    A petition is to be presented to Parliament urging it to pass legislation which will prevent dogs being used for vivisection. The document has been signed by 850,000 ...

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  25. A DISASTER AVERTED.

    The battleship Sao Paulo, which has just been completed at Elswick yards of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., for the Government of Brazil, had a narrow ...

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  26. PASSING OF CADETS' UNIFORM.

    The Fourth Battalion of Cadets paraded at Sale on Saturday, under the charge of Major Davey. There were 260 present, including cadets and officers from schools ...

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  27. PASSENGER DRUGGED.

    The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is pushing a charge against a brakeman, who is charged with chloroforming a lady passenger while she was in a sleeping ...

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  28. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

    The claims branch of the Railway department is now heavily taxed to deal with the large number of claims received for compensation for injury received in recent ...

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  29. EGYPTIAN INDEPENDENCE.

    At the congress of Young Egyptians which is being held at Brussels a warm welcome was extended to Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., one of the leading members of the ...

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  30. A DICKENS CHARACTER.

    The death of Mrs. Hayman has occurred at Southsea, near Portsmouth. She was the original of the chief character in Charles Dickens's novel "Little ...

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  31. CATHEDRAL DESTROYED.

    The cathedral at Mengo, in Uganda, was struck by lightning. The building caught fire, and was entirely destroyed. ...

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  32. CHINESE IN CANADA.

    Following upon an investigation made into charges of illegal admission of Chinese to Canada. Mr. J. M. Bowell, Controller of Chinese at Vancouver, and son of Mr. ...

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  33. ANTWERP WOOL SALES.

    The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, and bidding was animated. Out of 16,426 bales of La Plata wool offered, 7964 were sold, besides 1000 bales disposed of ...

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  34. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--The Railway Commissioners' explanation, as appearing in your columns, as to spreading of fail track opens tip a more serious state of things than was thoguht ...

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  35. NEWS FROM AMERICA.

    Mr. Champ Clark, the leader of the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives, predicts that his party will be victorious at the next elections. ...

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  36. A BRUTAL TRAGEDY.

    The discovery of the body of a young man floating in the Darling River, at the Bourke weir, leaves little doubt that a terrible tragedy has been enacted. The ...

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  37. TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICS.

    The ''Manchester Guardian" states that the trade unions will confer respecting the judgment in the Osborne case, which declared that levies made by trade unions ...

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  38. STATE POLITICS.

    At the meeting of the Political Labor Council executive on Saturday night a lefter was read showing that the following nominations had been received in ...

    Article : 103 words
  39. SOCIAL QUESTIONS.

    The social questions committee of the Anglican Church has prepared a report on its inquiries into social and industrial matters during the past year, which will be ...

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  40. THE LONDON MARKETS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 554 words
  41. THE DAVIS CUP.

    The international committee of the British Lawn Tennis Association has now decided not to send a team to Australia to compete for the Davis Cup against the ...

    Article : 199 words
  42. ALASKAN LAND SCANDAL.

    A further scandal in connection with land frauds in Alaska is suspected. A development is shortly expected which will exceed in notoriety the sensational cases ...

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  43. WEST AUSTRALIAN CABINET.

    Rumors of Cabinet dissensions are emphatically denied by the Premier (Mr. Wilson), and characterised by him as utterly absurd. The Minister ...

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  44. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING.

    A deputation from the Federated Seamen's Union waited on the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) to place before him resolutions passed at the recent conference with ...

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  45. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The commissioners appointed under the Development and Road Improvement Act are taking steps to encourage horse breeding, with the object of increasing the ...

    Article : 295 words
  46. COLLIERY DISASTER.

    The Wellington colliery at Whitehaven, in Cumberland, where a disastrous explosion occurred on 12th May, has been reopened after having been sealed up to ...

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  47. DEMAND FOR RIVERINA LAND.

    For three blocks of land near Matong, thrown open to selection as conditional purchase leases, in areas of 336, 533 and 651 acres, 190 applications were received. ...

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  48. RACING IN ENGLAND.

    In the race for the jockey premiership the ex-Australian Frank Wootton and D. Maher" have tied, each having ridden 85 winners. ...

    Article : 59 words
  49. Advertising

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  50. LIBEL ACTION SETTLED.

    The action for libel which Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., instituted against Mr. S. Creswell has been settled out of court. It was based on statements made during ...

    Article : 99 words
  51. YOUTHFUL IMMORALITY.

    A petition is being extensively signed by the townspeople Here for a remission of the flogging part of the sentence passed by the Chief Justice on the lad James ...

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  52. A NEW LINER.

    The Union Steamship Company has ordered from the Fairfield company a 16 knot passenger steamer to trade between Australia and New Zealand. She will be ...

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  53. SUNDAY EXCURSION.

    Nearly 100 excursionists availed themselves of the popular cheap Sunday fares to Beaconsfield to-day. All the vehicles in the district were needed to convey them to ...

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  54. A MISSING HUNGARIAN.

    The Commissioner of Police has received advice from Bundaberg that a Hungarian named Kristory Gyular disappeared from a boarding house on 17th or 18th inst. He ...

    Article : 76 words
  55. Advertising

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  56. Advertising

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  57. Advertising

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